Flow Quote by Greta Gerwig

Of all the mediums, theatre is the one where you really need to have something to say - because it's just you, the words,…

— Abi Morgan

Theatre is highly satisfying in terms of words. You get to speak in monologues; words drive the action.

— Sarita Choudhury

Theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair

— Federico Garcia Lorca

From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It…

— Lee Hall

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg.

— John Guare

In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down…

— Tracy Letts

Theatre has to be theatrical. It has to draw attention to itself, like poetry.

— Tony Harrison

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create…

— John Guare

Because British actors hold Shakespeare in such great reverence, we tend to go for the word, which tends to make things very intellectual.

— Geraldine James

On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters -…

— Alan Alda

“The scholar explained, very neatly, that a play might well have something interesting about it, but no literary value. He demonstrated, without wasting words,…

— Voltaire

Theatre is an actor's medium though behind the stage there is a playwright, director and perhaps in some, a music composer too, yet the…

— Himani Shivpuri